Vampire Prince Trapped Into a Hunter
Chapter 18 – ALTRUISM ARNO bag. 3
I have always known that humans are the most unbelievable creatures.
I still vividly remember how my Father told me about the beginnings of mankind living in our Sunda Castle.
They were but slaves wagging their tails between their legs asking for protection from Western imperialism.
The father agreed and was willing to help them in exchange for only a small amount of their blood each time period.
Those who initially agreed to the agreement.
But as time passed as they gained strength and Ayahanda weakened further, they betrayed their father and destroyed our precious Sunda Castle and established the Sunda Empire on the grounds of Ayahanda's arbitrary treatment that made them no more than mere blood cattle.
Truly an ungrateful, despicable creature.
What actually?
Even the country they formed with the payment of treason against the Father was not able to defend them for more than two centuries.
In the 167th year the country was formed, precisely in the year 1167 of the Solar Calendar, the country was collapsed by western imperialism.
I thought they were just doing it against us who in fact are a different race to them.
I should have guessed it by looking at the prolonged war between the east and west of mankind just because of trivial differences.
But I never thought that even if they were fellow human beings from the same tribe, they would betray each other and kill mercilessly.
Though the victims are high school students who have not been able to step into their adult years.
But the crime syndicates targeted them only because of state issues!
Do they have no code of ethics?!
In war alone, we have never violated the code of conduct to kill weak women and children who are not old enough.
But those bastards are now committing murder of minors without the slightest restraint!
I don't care at all about human affairs, wanting them to kill each other, it's none of my business.
But nevertheless…
However, I have been with the children for about three years.
I unknowingly have had a bond with those lowly humans.
And to think that what was precious to me was taken for granted by those crime syndicates, I was angry.
Very-very angry.
They are the only ones I have to kill!
I who had been dissolved in the sweetness of friendship for three years I was confined in a sweet shell called this school, immediately realized what reality is.
Man has rotted to his roots.
The innocent children who grew up with me for three years will one day become a bunch of rotten like those adults.
It was there that I realized how naive it was to forget my grudge against humanity.
It turns out that it is true that humanity is good to be destroyed!
But what would it be like Arno if he found the destruction of humanity right before his eyes?
He who has an altruistic spirit of heroism that is so high that at a level that makes me disgusted, will definitely not let it go.
And if Arno knew me as the mastermind, what would Arno think?
At that time, we could no longer be friends.
***
“Viar, are you okay?”
Arno's words immediately threw me out of my daydream.
“What?”
“It... About what Professor Catchilaoz said earlier. That's just the Professor's one-sided view. No one in this school cares about wanting someone that is from the noble class as well as ordinary people.”
“Ck.”
“Viar?”
“Ngapain also I think of trivial things like the opinion of the mad professor?! What is clear now is that we must concentrate in order to catch up with Lisanna in order to complete this dungeon.”
“What do you say, you commoner boy?! Can you say I'm crazy?!”
Professor Catchilaoz's voice suddenly once again echoed in our ears.
It seems he listened to my conversation with Arno.
Yeah but who else cares about that.
After all, I will also soon graduate from this high school so I will no longer be able to see her irritated face.
Am I a commoner?
Sorry, among the vampire race, I am a royal, a vampire prince whose standing is even higher among the other nobles.
“Let's just continue the journey.”
I looked at Arno deeply as a gesture of disregard and did not have to prolong the affair with the mad professor again.
As if understanding my point, Arno immediately agreed to continue the journey without saying much more.
Professor Catchilaoz's acrimony eventually became only the background voice of our travel companion before Professor Fritz finally silenced him.
“Hey, by the way, Arno. Why did you bother to save our other friends when you survived by yourself?”
After a long silence, Arno finally answered my question.
“If there is someone I can save right in front of my eyes, then I let it go, then surely I will regret it very much.”
“Why should you regret it? Don't you have responsibility for everyone's life?”
“…”
“Yes if I ask you a strange question.”.
“Actually, it's just for my own selfishness.”
After a sudden silence, Arno once again opened his voice.
“Hmm?”
“This is not about the people I saved.”
“Everything goes back to my own selfishness.”
“It feels like I can no longer live if I have to run by ignoring the people I should be able to save.”
“I don't want to go back to my weak old self who couldn't even save my only brother from oppression.”
“Your sister? You mean Dahlia's sister? So who's the bastard who dared to bully Kak Dahlia?!”
“Hahahahaha. It was an old story when we were still in elementary school.”
“In the end, Kak Dahlia had to be hospitalized for a very long time so that she could no longer continue her education to the high school level due to her injuries.”
“Not only physical injuries, Kak Dahlia also suffered mental injuries after his oppression even until now.”
“Lucanya, the criminals can be separated from the law just like that because our country has not managed well the rules that concern users of superpowers.”
“Super power? Was the bully a hunter?”
To my confirmation question, Arno nodded.
“To be exact a hunter candidate just like us.”
“Maybe that was the beginning I was determined to never again ignore the people I should have saved.”
“I don't want to end miserably like before who finally can't do anything to Kak Dahlia.”
“Then why don't you take your revenge on the people who did that to Kak Dahlia?”
“Hahahahaha. Viar is indeed an interesting minded person.”
“Of course.”
“Of course I always had the determination for it.”
“Only the position in my family is too complex that does not allow me to do it.”
“Yeah, so it's not that I'm good anyway, Viar.”
“All I do is comfort myself in the weakness of my past that cannot protect my only sister.”
I could tell at that time that Arno was like a broken glass.
Just a little bit I touched the sensitive part, he will soon break into pieces.
For now, I can only give her a simple consolation.
“So why if it's just self-indulgence?”
“The fact that thanks to you, ten of our other friends can survive will not change.”
“Viar?”
“So why?”
“Part of our situation remains the same.”
“We just need to get out of this dungeon alive then start a new life that we will never regret again.”
“If necessary, I will help you think of taking revenge on the bunch of bastards who hurt Dahlia after coming out of this dungeon.”
Arno's smile looks back.
It's definitely not because I intend to collaborate on his unrequited grudges.
After all, Arno was not the type of person who would think of revenge.
What he felt must have been a mere sense of solidarity.
Well, anyway I didn't mean to fool Arno with my words.
If I manage to regain my strength, those people will be among the subjects I will destroy in my project of destroying mankind.
If there were only three people like Arcia, Arno, and Kak Dahlia, maybe I could set them aside in the destruction project and make them my loyal pets by my side.
That was until we arrived at the entrance of the boss monster dungeon located on the fifth floor.
